Sutter touched all the bases here and cleaned up all the loose ends, ending the season while it was still a strong ratings draw for FX, as opposed to hanging on and overstaying his welcome like many hot shows do. There was symmetry there Chiklis starred as the antagonist of The Shield, and creator Shawn Ryan gave Sutter his first major writing job on that series, which led him to create Sons. It was an appropriately bloody end for Jax, who wound up pasted to the grill of the Papa’s Goods tractor trailer driven by Michael Chiklis’ Milo character who appeared in the previous episode. After a touching farewell to his late father whose ideals he could not live up to, Jax forced a firefight with a trooper and led a team of cops on a chase that could only end one way on the I-580. 'Sons Of Anarchy' Finale Leak: Kurt Sutter Apologizes Overīut there was no way that show creator Kurt Sutter was going to end this massively ambitious seven-year run by allowing Jax to escape his many sins. He settled scores with the Irish gun runners and everyone else who displeased him, including the double crossing Charles Barosky (played by Peter Weller, a regular director of Sons episodes), and August Marks (Billy Brown). In an episode Tuesday night that ran north of 90 minutes, Jax seemed to have thought of everything, including his own escape. That cycle turned Jax, the son of the club’s co-founder John Teller, from a redemption-seeking protagonist into an unredeemable thug whose Man On Fire routine defined the final season, destroying rivals but also just about everything he loved. There would be the settling of old scores hatching a succession plan for his biker club, or at least the few members still standing and planning a future for his two sons that didn’t involve the motorcycles, guns and gratuitous violence.
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"The idea that he was going to go out in the same way.SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight’s series finale of Sons Of Anarchy.įrom the first moment of the final episode of Sons Of Anarchy, it was clear that SAMCRO leader Jax Teller ( Charlie Hunnam) would have a busy day.
"I had a sense really from the beginning of this ride that I liked the notion of Jax being brought to the same place of his father, but getting it right," Sutter shared.
The decision was based on the character's misdeeds, including killing his mother Gemma (Katey Sagal), and as a way to mirror his father JT's (Victor Newmark) death. Sutter revealed he intended for Jax to die by suicide all along. The actor recognized Jax's "peace and calm" when he read the final two episodes, "And that was the moment that it really dawned on me that you had decided to go for it and we were going to say goodbye to Jax at the end." "We had talked about there being various potential versions of the ending in the beginning of the season and had a couple of conversations," Hunnam recalled to Sutter. Following the final episode, Hunnam and creator Kurt Sutter were on hand to discuss the ending on special Anarchy Afterword. The FX drama aired its series finale Tuesday, which saw Jax Teller (Hunnam) commit suicide by driving his father's motorcycle into an oncoming truck.